It Happened at the Coliseum … on MAY 13th

This May 13^th is like all of the others in Coliseum history -- the Isles never played a game at the Coliseum on May 13^th.

Also on this date: (1975) – Kate Smith sang; Gary Dornhoefer scored 19 seconds into play and the Flyers eliminated the Islanders with a 4-1 win in  game 7. Rick MacLeish had the other three Flyers goals, cementing the series with an empty net.

Also on this date: (1980) – Five years to the date of their first playoff elimination, the Isles returned to Philadelphia for the first Stanley Cup Final game in their history.  Denis Potvin scored a power play goal 4:07 into overtime as the Isles took a 1 game to 0 lead in the series with a 4-3 victory. The teams traded goals in each of the three regulation periods before Potvin potted the game winner with just 1 second remaining on a penalty to Joe Watson.

Here's the CBC Pre-game comments from before game 1:

Here's the first period:

(unfortunately I don't video for the rest of the game)

Also on this date: (1982) – Billy Smith needed to make only 23 saves as the Isles took a 3-game-to-0 stranglehold on the Stanley Cup Final with a 3-0 win over Vancouver at the Pacific Coliseum.  Clark Gillies, Mike Bossy and Bob Nystrom (the latter into the empty net) scored for the Isles.  It was Bossy’s 5^th goal of the series – and he wasn’t done yet!

You've probably seen Bossy's goal thousands of times by now -- but here it is again.



You can see some other highlights here:

https://youtu.be/ONYTURIJ4TM 1st pd
https://youtu.be/HZBrnlDJyeY 2nd pd

https://youtu.be/1PMw7aBHKXE 3rd pd

All-time, the Isles played no playoff games on May 13th at the Coliseum; they compiled a 0-0 playoff record on this date at 1255 Hempstead Turnpike in Uniondale.